USS INDIANAPOLIS

CA-35

This site is dedicated to the 883
men of USS Indianapolis who paid the ultimate price for freedom.

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*** NEW BOOK AVAILABLE
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"ONLY 317 SURVIVED" authored
by The Survivors of USS Indianapolis. Read of the tragedy of
USS Indianapolis as written by the survivors themselves. 102 survivors and
40 deceased survivor families share the experience of delivering the atomic
bomb components on 26 July, 1945 and subsequently being sunk by Japanese
torpedoes on 30 July, 1945. They were found accidentally 5 days later,
883 men dead and 317 barely alive. Nothing left out... nothing added. Finally
a book that recognizes and honors all 317 survivors.

Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto, commanding
officer of the I-58, died in Kyoyo, Japan on October 25, 2000 at the age
of 91. He was an honorable man who came to the defense of Captain McVay just
in his last months. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.